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Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for biofuels and … of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University seeks to understand and enhance the rubber biosynthesis … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially …
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Nandita is involved in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA …
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… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the … lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …
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… which is something I didn’t even know existed before. Seeing the breadth of interesting work being done at the JGI … Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer … an exceptional help in my summer project, whether it was developing my coding abilities or guiding me through …
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… determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can … plants (endophytes). These include genes that degrade plant cell walls and break down plant sugars. The results also … and can efficiently colonize roots by degrading the plant cell wall component pectin. The results therefore predicted …
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… land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity enabled plants to develop complex structures and … 2024 in Nature Genetics by an international research consortium led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and … share key genes with land plants for making and modifying cell walls, a feature crucial for surviving on land. They …
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… circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from … of desert grasslands to the metabolic savviness of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean …
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